Cisco ThousandEyes Deployment & Implementation

Price : $ 4495

Duration: 5 Days

Technology: Cisco

Overview

TEDI, Cisco ThousandEyes Deployment and Implementation, is a 5-day course designed to help you understand, deploy, and manage the ThousandEyes platform. This course provides the details and hands-on activities necessary to successfully deploy ThousandEyes and perform outage and performance analysis by leveraging data patterns and correlating test output.

Course Objectives

Upon completing this course, the learner will be able to meet these overall objectives:

Describe the ThousandEyes solution and its benefits
Describe ThousandEyes agents, their purpose and how to determine optimal agent placement
Explain the different ThousandEyes test types and their purposes
Configure and run tests to correlate test output with the source of an application or network performance issue

Who Should Attend:

The primary audience for this course is as follows:

Systems Engineers
Technical Solutions Architects
Application Developers and Engineers

Prerequisites:

The knowledge and skills that a learner should have before attending this course are as follows:

Knowledge of cloud and (virtual) data center architecture and networking concepts
High-level familiarity with basic network protocols and applications
Familiarity with common application delivery methods

Description

Module 1: Cisco SD-WAN Introduction

High-level Cisco SD-WAN Deployment models
Application level SD-WAN solution
Cisco SDWAN plan for HA and Scalability
Cisco SD-WAN solution components: vManage NMS, vSmart Controller, vBond Orchestrator
Edge Routers (cEdge & vEdge)
Cloud Based Deployment vs On-Premises Deployment

Module 2: Zero Touch Provisioning

Overview
User Input Required for the ZTP Automatic Authentication Process
Authentication between the vBond Orchestrator and WAN Edges
Authentication between the Edge Routers and the vManage NMS
Authentication between the vSmart Controller and the Edge Routers

Module 3: Cisco SD-WAN Solution

Overlay Management Protocol (OMP)
Cisco SD-WAN Circuit Aggregation Capabilities
Secure Connectivity in Cisco SD-WAN
Performance Tracking Mechanisms
Application Discovery
Dynamic Path Selection
Performance Based Routing
Direct Internet Access
Cisco SD-WAN In-built Security features: App Aware FW, Talos IPS, URL Filtering, Umbrella Integration & Advanced Malware Protection
Dynamic Cloud Access: Cloud On-Ramp for SaaS and IaaS (AWS, Azure & GPC)

Module 4: Operations Best Practices

Config: Test Configuration Changes Before Committing
NAT: Secure Routers Acting as NATs
Edge Routers: Connect to the Console Port
vManage Operational Commands
SD WAN Devices: Site ID Naming Conventions
SD WAN Devices: Using the System IP Address
vManage NMS: Disaster Recovery
- Disaster Recovery – Cluster failover scenarios
- vManage Disaster Recovery Checklist
- How to configure Disaster Recovery

Module 5: Application Monitoring (Including SD-AVC)

vManage – Application Monitoring
How to enable DPI on SD-WAN cEdge Routers
- Monitoring Application traffic per device/site
- How to enable SD-AVC on vManage and push to routers.
- Configuring application log collection parameters.
vAnalytics
- vAnalytics dashboard walk-through
- vAnalytics Network Health
- vAnalytics Network Availability
- vAnalytics Applications
Ecosystem Partner Solutions

Module 6: General Troubleshooting

Check Application-Aware Routing Traffic
Collect Device Data To Send to Customer Support
Monitor Alarms and Events
Monitor TCP Optimization
Ping an SD WAN Device
Run a Traceroute
Simulate Flows
Troubleshoot Cellular Interfaces
Troubleshoot Device Bringup
Use Syslog Messages
Tunnel Health

Module 7: Troubleshooting: Data Plane Issues

BFD Session Information and Troubleshooting a BFD Session
Cflowd Issues
Data Policies
DPI Issues
Symptom: Site Cannot Reach Applications in Datacenter
Symptom: vManage Showing Edge Router or Interface Down
Symptom: Site-Wide Loss of Connectivity (Blackout)
Symptom: Poor Application Performance (Brownout)
Issue Severity Assessment

Module 8: Troubleshooting: Routing Issues

Troubleshooting NAT Issues for Control and Data connections
BGP Information
Multicast Information
OMP Information
OSPF Information
PIM Information
Symptom: Some or All Routes Missing from Edge Routing table
Symptom: Data Traffic Using Suboptimal Path
Symptom: Data Traffic Not Using All Transports

Module 9: Monitoring and Troubleshooting Application-Aware Routing

Application Performance with Cloud-Express Service
Tunnel Latency Statistics
Tunnel Loss Statistics

Module 10: Troubleshooting Policy Related Issues

Checking configuration o For Localized Policies
- For Centralized Policies
How to check if FIA is enabled
Confirming and troubleshooting TCAM Issues
Enabling Various Policy Level Logs
- FRM Logs
- EPBR Logs
- FNF Logs during config
- Collecting Log Files
- How to deal with too many logs

Module 11: Network Operations

Check Alarms and Events
Check User Accounts and Permissions
Deploy the SD WAN Overlay Network
Determine the Status of Network Sites
Control Connections
Data Connections
OMP Status
Enabling Embedded Packet Captures and Packet Trace on Cisco cEdges

Module 12: Security Certificate Troubleshooting

Generate a Certificate Signing Request
Issues when installing a certificate
Using Cisco Signed Certificates vs 3rd Party Signed Certificates
Upload the Edge Serial Number File

Module 13: SD WAN Devices Maintenance

Decommission a vEdge Cloud Router
Determine the Status of a Network Device
Migrate a Controller’s Virtual Machine Using vMotion
Remove an Edge Router’s Serial Number from the vManage NMS
Replace an Edge Router
Restore the vManage NMS
Set Up User Accounts to Access SD-WAN Devices
Validate or Invalidate an Edge Router
Software Versions Installed on a Device
Troubleshooting platform crash issues

Module 14: SD WAN Device Operation and Troubleshooting

Determine Changes to a Configuration Template
Determine Why a Device Rejects a Template
Alarm Severity Levels
Hardware Alarms
Checking Alarms and Notifications
LEDs
Additional Information
Restore an Edge Router
Remove Edge Router Components

Lab Outline

Lab 1: Deploy and configure the Cisco SD-WAN Fabric
- Configure and Deploy Control-Plane Connectivity
- Configure and Deploy an Overlay Network
- Provision and Deploy vManage Templates
- Provision and Deploy vManage Policies
Lab 2: Operational Best Practices
Lab 3: Installing SD-AVC and monitoring CFlowd & DPI
Lab 4: Cisco SD-WAN Control Plan Troubleshooting
Lab 5: Cisco SD-WAN Data Plane Troubleshooting
Lab 6: Cisco SD-WAN Troubleshoot Routing Issues
- Basic route troubleshooting on the SD-WAN XE Image
- Debugs on the Cisco SD-WAN XE Image
Lab 7: Troubleshooting Cisco SD-WAN Policies
Lab 8: Configuring a vManage Disaster Recovery Backup
Lab 9: Troubleshooting platform crash files
Lab 10: Configuring Cisco SD-WAN Alarms, Alerts and Notifications

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